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Welcome to our new hints and tips section! Please

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From the desk of Susan dos Santos:

Enrollment Verification

Enrollment verifications for students in Yale College and

in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences can be

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Church Street using a Request For Enrollment

Verification (PDF) form. Allow 3–5 days for processing

and mailing. Students on non-disclosure must submit a

signed request.

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Current students and alumni of Yale College and the

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences can request

verifications from our office using a Request For Degree

Verification (PDF) form. After your request is received, it

is generally processed and sent in 3-5 business days.

A Note from the Climate and Diversity Committee

(CDC).

This week we celebrate one of our own. Prof. Meg

Urry's 2005 Washington Post Essay

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

dyn/articles/A360-2005Feb5.html?noredirect=on) has

inspired Karen McFarlene Holman, a Professor of

Chemistry at Willamette University, to write this song

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95wwHMol1j0)

for her all-female punk band, Hot Sheets. Prof.

McFarlene Holman is their guitarist and singer.

Remember, everyone should kick back from time to

time and just dance or sing their heart out - Its VERY

cathartic!

The CDC convenes once a month. If interested in joining

please contact Helen Caines (helen.caines@yale.edu,

Chair of CDC). You may contact the whole committee at

physics-cdc@mailman.yale.edu

The 2019 Graduate Open House is scheduled for Thursday,

March 28-Friday, March 29, 2019.

Monday, February 25

1:15pm in Sloane Physics Lab 56. Special Theoretical Physics

Seminar. Vladimir Rosenhaus, Institute for Advanced

Study, “New Solvable Quantum Field Theories”. Host: Jack

Harris.

2:30pm in Mason Lab 107. Department of Mechanical

Engineering & Materials Science Seminar. Dr. Adrián

Lozano-Durán, Stanford University, “Can energy-eddies of

100 meters size be understood from eddies of 1

centimeter size?”. Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz.

4:00pm in Sloane Physics Lab 57. 42nd Annual Hanan Rosenthal

Memorial Lecture. Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute

of Quantum Optics, “Realizing Feynman’s Dream of a

Quantum Simulator”. Host: Nir Navon. There will be a

reception before the talk in the Sloane Physics Lab 3rd

Floor Lounge.

4:00pm in Sterling Chemistry Lab 111. Department of Chemistry

Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry. Prof. Thomas Jaramillo,

Stanford University, “New Catalysts for the Sustainable

Production and Use of Fuels and Chemicals”.

Tuesday, February 26

11:00am in Yale Quantum Institute Seminar Room. Yale

Quantum Institute Colloquium. Immanuel Bloch, Max-

Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. “From Topological

Order to High Energy Physics: Probing Quantum Matter in

New Regimes and with New Tools”. Hosts: Steve Girvin

and Nir Navon.

12:00pm in Steinbach Hall. Dark Matter Discussion Group

(DMDG). Dark Matter Discussion Group (DMDG) meetings

are open to everyone interested in understanding dark

matter, and we hope that graduate students, post-docs

and faculty will all attend with enthusiasm. Bring your own

lunch.

3:00pm in Mann Student Center, Dunham Lab 107 at 3:00pm.

Dissertation Defense. Dandan Ji, Yale University,

“Modeling of the dynamics large-scale coherent structures

in the system of Rayleight-Bernard Convection”. Thesis

advisor: Eric Brown.

Wednesday, February 27

10:30am in Sloane Physics Lab 51. Graduate Methods Seminar.

Joe Sullivan, Yale University, “Homology, cohomology, and

obstructions to exactness”

12:00pm in Sloane Physics Lab 56. Special Biological Physics

Seminar. Andrew J. Mugler, Purdue University, “Physics of

cell-cell communication and collective behavior”. Host:

Nicholas Read.

1:00pm in Wright Lab 216. Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA)

Seminar. Akira Konaka, TRIUMF, “Precision measurement

of neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande”. Lunch will be served

in Wright Lab-Connector 245 from 12:00-1:00pm. RSVP

required.

1:15pm in Sloane Physics Lab 51. Special Theoretical Physics

Seminar. Austin Joyce, Columbia University, “Exploring

Beyond the Standard Cosmological Model”. Host: Jack

Harris.

2:00pm in Sloane Physics Lab 52. Atomic Physics Seminar.

Kazua Fujimoto, University of Tokyo, “Non-thermal fixed

points in a one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Bose gas”.

Host: Nir Navon.

4:00pm in Sterling Chemistry Lab 160. Molecular, Cellular and

Developmental Biology Seminar. Julie Claycomb,

University of Toronto, “Argonomics: Understanding the

functions of small RNA pathways in a whole animal

model”. Host: Josien van Wolfswinkel. Tea at 3:45pm.

4:00pm in William L. Harkness Hall 116. IEEE Electrical

Engineering Month. Hong Tang, Yale University,

“Microelectronics”. Food will be served.

Thursday, February 28

9:00am in Watson Center A-74. Dissertation Defense. Meredith

Powell, Yale University, “The Environments of Accreting

Supermassive Black Holes”. Thesis Advisor: Meg Urry.

1:00pm in Sloane Physics Lab 52. Condensed Matter Seminar.

Dominic Blosser, ETH-Zürich, “Quantum critical dynamics

in one-dimensional magnets”.

2:30pm in Watson Center A-51. Yale Astronomy & Astrophysics

Colloquium. Pieter van Dokkum, Greg Laughlin, Marla

Geha, Hector Arce and Priya Natarajan, Yale University,

Each will speak for 10 minutes.

7:30pm in Loria Center 250. Yale Quantum Institute and Franke

Program in Science and the Humanities. Spencer Topel,

Sound Artist & Composer, “Immaterial Waves: Light,

Sound, and Architecture”.

Friday, March 1

9:00am in Sloane Physics Lab 48. Dissertation Defense.

Matthew Steinecker, Yale University, “Sub-Doppler Laser

Cooling and Magnetic Trapping of SrF Molecules”. Thesis

Advisor: David DeMille.

1:00pm in Wright Lab 216. Wright Lab Workshop. 3D Printing

Workshop: Introduction to design and fabrication, RSVP

Requested. Contact James Nikkel at

james.nikkel@yale.edu for more information.

4:00pm in Kline Geology Lab 123. Geology & Geophysics

Colloquium. Zhiming Kuang, “Some applications of linear

response in atmospheric dynamics”.

For more seminars see: http://physics.yale.edu/calendar

Yale Finance News

eShipGlobal upgrade

The University’s express shipping tool, eShipGlobal,

that has supported over 54,000 transactions since

2017, will be upgraded with improved compliance

and use features in March 2019.

Yale’s upgrade includes:

• The ability for authorized non-Yale shippers

to create eShipGlobal transactions for their

shipments to Yale.

• The ability to save multiple COA charging

instructions to your profile to simplify

choosing the proper COA combination on

transactions.

• Additional research compliance

verifications for some research material

shipments.

In February, the program team will conduct a study

with select members of the Yale community to

ensure communications, training, and support are

ready and available for the eShipGlobal community.

Watch for more information on training and

support, to be distributed in the coming weeks.

Meng Cheng (Assistant Professor of Physics) and

Nir Navon (Assistant Professor of Physics) have

been awarded 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships.

From Yale News, “Four Yale faculty members have

been awarded a $70,000 Sloan Research Fellowship

to advance their work.”

Click here for full story in Yale News

Priyamvada Natarajan (Professor of Astronomy)

research in the news. From Yale News, “The

heavens delivered a bit of scientific vindication to

Yale professor of astronomy and physics

Priyamvada Natarajan recently, when her 20-year-

old theory about winds from distant black holes

was proven correct.” Click here for full story in Yale

News

Fabio Pacucci (Postdoctoral Associate with Nico

Cappelluti) research in the news. From Yale News,

“Researchers have discovered the brightest quasar

yet known, detected from the period when the

universe’s star-making hydrogen gas became

ionized, known as “reionization”.” Click here for full

story in Yale News

Robert Schoelkopf (Sterling Professor of Applied

Physics) research in the news. From Yale News,

“The potential of Yale’s research to drive economic

growth and produce jobs took center stage on Jan.

24, as Yale startup company Quantum Circuits Inc.

(QCI) opened its New Haven development and

testing facility for quantum computing.” Click here

for full story in the Yale News

Shany Danieli (Graduate Student with Pieter van

Dokkum) research in the news. From Yale News,

“Much as a ripple in a pond reveals a thrown stone,

the existence of the mysterious stuff known as dark

matter is inferred via its wider cosmic influence.

Astronomers cannot see it directly, but its gravity

sculpts the birth, shape and movement of galaxies.

This makes a discovery from last year all the more

unexpected: a weirdly diffuse galaxy that seemed

to harbor no dark matter at all.” Click here for full

story in Yale News

Emily Coates (Associate Professor of Theater

Studies) and Sarah Demers (Horace D. Taft

Associate Professor) research in the news. From

Yale News, “Emily Coates, associate

professor of theater studies and of directing,

and Sarah Demers, the Horace D. Taft Associate

Professor of Physics

(Yale University Press)

From stepping out of our beds each morning to

admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of

motion, energy, space, and time. How do we

understand the phenomena that shape our

experience? How do we make sense of our physical

realities? Two guides — a former member of New

York City Ballet, Emily Coates, and a CERN particle

physicist, Sarah Demers — show how their

respective disciplines can help us to understand

both the quotidian and the deepest questions

about the universe.” Click here for full story in Yale

News

Jane Cummings (Ph.D. 2016, Yale University)

research in the news. From Yale News, “Stephen

Lawlor and David Hunt have witnessed a lot of

bullying. Among the principal victims, in their

experience, are young, first-time mothers, who are

sometimes so intimidated that they’re unable to

eat. Isolating their tormentors in a separate group

isn’t a solution, Hunt told me: “They just knock the

crap out of each other”.” Click here for full story in

the New Yorker

Laura Newburgh (Assistant Professor of Physics)

research in the news. From Yale News, “Assistant

professor of physics Laura Newburgh is part of a

Canadian-led experiment that has detected the

second-known example of a repeating fast radio

burst (FRB) originating far outside the Milky Way

galaxy.” Click here for full story in Yale News

Please click here for updates on the Yale Science

Building, including a new logistics plan. The project

encompasses the construction of a new state of the art

sciences laboratory at the approximate location of the

demolished J.W. Gibbs building, a comprehensive

renovation of the KBT Plaza, a lecture hall, and a

common area at the south end of KBT Plaza.

Yale Science Building

Please join the YSB construction team on Thursday

March 7th at 3:30pm in SPL 57 for a Town Hall meeting

and discussion regarding upcoming work.

Message from the YPA

Dear Fellow Postdocs and Associate Research

Scientists,

Following the success of our inaugural event last

year, we invite you to SAVE THE DATE for the

Second Annual Postdoc Symposium to be held on

Friday June 7th in the beautiful Kroon Hall. This

event will again be open to postdocs and associate

research scientists from all departments. We are

happy to announce that our keynote speaker for

the event will be Carl Zimmer!

We are opening a call for abstract submission for

oral (10 min and 3 min) and poster presentations

from now until February 22nd. Please register

>HERE<.

We will have a social event at the end of

symposium. Details will be updated soon. If you

would like to know more about the event or

volunteer with symposium organization or on the

day, please come to our next general meeting at

BCMM 201 on 5-7 pm of 2nd April. For more

information, please visit our website or contact us

at ypa@yale.edu.

Kind regards,

The Symposium Planning Committee

Yale Postdoctoral Association

Yale University Library

Student Curator Opportunity (Create and present a

“Women at Yale” exhibit based on your research

with library collections)

The selection committee for the 2019-20 Student

Research at Yale University Library exhibit is

seeking four students to curate one exhibit case

each based on a completed paper or research

project.

In honor of the 50 Women at Yale 150 celebration,

the proposals must be related to some aspect of

women’s experience and contributions at Yale or in

the world.

The submission deadline has been extended to

Monday, Feb. 25.

This opportunity is open to undergraduate,

graduate or professional students. The exhibit will

run from October to April in the Sterling Memorial

Library exhibition corridor. Review requirements

and submit a proposal.

Please share this message and encourage your

students to apply.

Affinity Groups at Yale

The Future Leaders at Yale Recognition Awards

Do you know an outstanding mentor and leader?

Has someone connected you to others at Yale or in

New Haven? Perhaps you have a go-to problem

solver who helps you think big? Or maybe your

colleague is constantly thinking about how to make

Yale more diverse, equitable, and inclusive?

FLY has launched an annual Recognition Awards,

and are looking to celebrate amazing colleagues

across campus in the following categories:

• Rising Star: a mentor, leader, and doer

• Community Leader: a connector, partner,

and organizer

• Visionary: an innovator, problem solver,

and dreamer

• Diversity & Inclusion: a collaborator,

advocate, and change-maker

• Advocate for Young Professionals: a

champion, voice, or resource for early

career staff members

Nominations are being accepted now through

February 28. To learn more about the awards, and

to complete the submission form, please go to:

https://fly.yale.edu/recognition. It takes just one

person to nominate a colleague and recognize their

hard work!

Nominations open for second annual Y-Work

awards

Dean of Yale College Marvin Chun recently

announced the second year of the Y-Work Award

for Outstanding Undergraduate Student

Employees. The award, which is accepting

nominations now through March 8, recognizes

undergraduates whose dedication to their on-

campus jobs has a positive impact on the Yale

community.

All Yale faculty and staff who supervise

undergraduate student workers are encouraged to

nominate a student employee at the Yale College

website. All current undergraduates who have

worked a term-time job are eligible.

In his announcement, Chun wrote that through on-

campus employment, many Yale students “acquire

and apply new skills, receive valuable professional

mentoring, and improve their readiness for careers

after graduation.”

The Y-Work Award seeks to honor those students

whose impact through their campus job has been

particularly noteworthy. A committee comprising

representatives from the Office of Career Strategy,

Financial Aid, Public Affairs and Communications,

Student Financial Services, and Undergraduate

Admissions will select student winners to be

honored later this spring. The 10 winners of the

inaugural Y Work Award represented a wide range

of Yale departments, laboratories, museums, and

resource centers.

Click here for the full story in Yale News.